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CALL FOR PAPERS
Third Annual Midwest World History Association Conference

Theme: "The Reshaping of Planet Earth:
Connections Between Humans and the Environment in World History"

Proposal submission deadline: March 15, 2012

Grand Valley State University
Allendale, Michigan
2 - 5 August 2012

The Midwest World History Association (MWWHA), an affiliate of the World
History Association, invites proposals from teachers and scholars of world
history for workshops, panels, single papers, roundtables, poster
presentations and other interactive presentations related to the pedagogical
and scholarly aspects of the conference's theme: "The Reshaping of Planet
Earth: Connections Between Humans and the Environment in World History."
This conference will be held jointly with the Inaugural Conference of the
International Big History Association. We hope that this conference will
serve as a space for discussing developing scholarship of world history,
including the teaching of world history. It also will serve as a space for
making connections between world history teachers and students from K-12,
higher education, and public history.

To underscore our conversational and inclusive focus, we particularly invite
and welcome workshops of pre-circulated papers (accessible to registered
participants online) and panels that cross the boundaries of disciplinary
approaches and boundaries between various classrooms or public history
sites. We encourage proposals from undergraduate students as well as mixed
panels that include students, K-12 teachers, college professors and
independent scholars.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

. Connections between human history and the environment

. How the environment is reshaped by human activity, and how, in turn,
it shapes human activities and ideas

. The relationship between environmental factors and human migration
in world history

. Environmental pollution

. Environmental impact on economic, social, philosophical, religious,
or political orders across boundaries, or vice versa

. Climate change and world history

. Connections between the K-12 world history curriculum and world
history in the college classroom

. Best practices for training teachers of world history

. Developmentalism and its environmental and economic consequences in
world history

. Landscapes and world history

Each proposal should include a 250 word abstract of the paper or workshop
and a curriculum vitae. Where a complete panel or workshop is proposed, the
convener should also include a 250 word abstract of the workshop/panel
theme. We discourage papers that are longer than 20 minutes and encourage
interactive and conversational presentations.

Proposals should be submitted in electronic format to Paul Jentz:paul.jentz (a) nhcc.edu by March 15th. Presenters must register for the
conference by June 1, 2012 to be included in the program.

Further information about the MWWHA, including membership and conference
registration can be found on our website: www.mwwha.org